benocclusion

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(deprecated template usage) Probably coined by Simeon Hayden Guilford ante 1905: (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ben(e) (“well, properly”) + occlusion (“alignment of the teeth in closed jaws”), after malocclusion (“misalignment of the upper and lower sets of teeth”).

benocclusion (uncountable)

(rare) Normal occlusion (alignment) of the teeth when the jaws are closed.
- 1905, Simeon Hayden Guilford, Orthodontia; or, Malposition of the Human Teeth, 4th ed., page 33:
  Benocclusion…is well illustrated by Fig. 11 which represents the teeth of a Caucasian in a state of contact or rest.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:benocclusion.